NEW DELHI: A local court today issued a bailable warrant against Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel after he failed to appear before it in an alleged rioting case of 2008. Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Sunil Kumar Sharma issued the warrant against Goel after he did not appear today even after the court's direction on January 12. The police had chargesheeted 21 persons, including Goel, BJP leaders Harsh Vardhan (now Union Minister), ...

NEW DELHI: A local court today issued a bailable warrant against Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel after he failed to appear before it in an alleged rioting case of 2008. Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Sunil Kumar Sharma issued the warrant against Goel after he did not appear today even after the court's direction on January 12. The police had chargesheeted 21 persons, including Goel, BJP leaders Harsh Vardhan (now Union Minister), ...

NEW DELHI: Aiming at turning Delhi into a smart city, the Union Ministry of Power here today launched a pilot project on conversion of street-lighting from conventional system to an energy-efficient and environment-friendly LED type. With the project, helmed by the Union Ministry of Power, the government also seeks to save about 25 crore units of electricity consumption and Rs 700 crore. The pilot system was launched by Union Urban Development...

NEW DELHI: IRS officer Gargi Sharma Goel was today appointed as Private Secretary to Minister of State for Rural Development Sudarshan Bhagat . Goel, a 2004 batch Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) officer, will hold the charge for five year term or on co-terminus basis with the minister's tenure, an order issued by then Department of Personnel and Training said.

NEW DELHI: AAP MLA Ram Niwas Goel was today unanimously elected Speaker of the Delhi Assembly on the first day of the two-day session of the House. Another ruling party legislator, Bandana Kumari, was elected Deputy Speaker of the House where the main and only opposition, BJP, has a negligible presence with just three legislators. 67-year-old Goel was elected from Shahdara constituency in north Delhi where he defeated BJP's Jitender Singh Shunty by a margin of over...

?Ambika Hinduja Macker talks to ET's Nilima David about her passion for design, her boutique company Impeccable Imagination and her creative core. A walk-in closet for Bollywood actor Preity Zinta , a hangout area for Mumbai fashion designer Surily Goel at home, an upmarket salon and more difficult, the interiors of her father's bungalow in New Delhi. Ambika Hinduja Macker , the daughter of the youngest Hinduja brother Ashok, is...

MUMBAI: Life Insurance Corporation of India chairman DK Mehrotra and IDBI Bank chief RM Malla, among others, are in the reckoning for the post of chairman of state-owned Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd after its current chairman and managing director SK Goel's tenure ends in June, executives involved with the development told ET. Last week, the government, interviewed around 35 candidates, including Goel, for the position amid ambiguity over...

NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP today accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of garnering political mileage through controversies and of ignoring the problems of people by putting up a "facade" of honesty. "It is clear that Kejriwal is trying to divert attention of the people from the issues of governance as he has failed to deliver on this front. "He should give priority to addressing the problems of people of Delhi instead of trying to play to the...

MUMBAI: India Infrastructure Finance Company (IIFCL) today said it is targeting to raise Rs 11,000 crore from institutional and retail investors through bond issues by March, 2012. "We have written to the government to come out with a Rs 10,000-crore tax free infra bonds issue by March, which will be subscribed by institutions," IIFCL Chairman and Managing Director S K Goel told reporters here. The company will also raise Rs 1,000 crore through retail...

NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP today termed the AAP government's move to register an FIR in the street light purchase scam during the 2010 Commonwealth Games as an " eyewash ", saying that no Congress leader has been named in the complaint filed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). "BJP had handed over the evidence of involvement of Congress leaders in the CWG scams and has been consistently demanding registering of cases against former Chief Minister Sheila...

MUMBAI: City-based prepaid cards firm ItzCash Card has raised a Rs 100 crore investment commitment from its promoter Ashok Goel as it seeks a payment bank licence . Goel, promoter of packaging firm Essel Propack and entertainment park Essel World , already holds over 60 per cent in the 10-year-old firm. "The company has been empowering the under-banked population and we now have over 50,000 touch points, 23 per cent of which are in...

With the Union budget for 2015-16 round the corner, the real estate sector is ready with its wish-list, hoping for a favourable treatment from the new government. In the coming Budget the sector expects improved business environment giving a strong push to growth, said Mohit Goel, CEO, Omaxe Ltd. Government has been moving steadily on Smart Cities, hence the Government must further liberalize and allow FDI in...

NEW DELHI: Industry body National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) has sought reintroduction of tax benefits for the housing sector to boost demand. Re-introduce "tax benefit under section 80-1B(10) in coming union budget 2015 to provide tax benefits for the housing sector up to basic selling price of Rs 60 lakh in the country to boost demand of housing sector and to realise the dream of Prime Minister for providing housing for all...

SINGAPORE: Singapore-based Indian businessman Niraj Goel's Clone Algo Group will invest Rs 2,000 crores in new technology facilities in India in the next 2 years. "We will be setting up a Research & Development Centre, marketing as well as programming and back office," said Nitin Damodaran, Chief Executive Officer of the Las Vegas-based group. The investment would be made by Goel's Clone Algo Inc, which is in the midst of share placement under Round C worth USD...

NEW DELHI: Aiming at turning Delhi into a smart city, the Union Ministry of Power here today launched a pilot project on conversion of street-lighting from conventional system to an energy-efficient and environment-friendly LED type. With the project, helmed by the Union Ministry of Power, the government also seeks to save about 25 crore units of electricity consumption and Rs 700 crore. The pilot system was launched by Union Urban Development...

in "starry-eyed in 2002" (et, investor's guide, january 7) rajiv goel quotes shakespeare, but ascribes the passage to "the tempest". it is unclear whether this has been thus ascribed by credit lyonnais as well. the quote is from act iv, scene iii of julius caesar. sanjeeb kumar, by e-mail

KOLKATA: UCO Bank will take a hit of Rs 130 crore following loss in treasury operations in the first quarter of the current financial year, a bank official said on Monday. Net profit of the bank in the first quarter would be lower by Rs 130 crore due to provisioning for depreciation for incurring mark-to-market loss, UCO Bank Chairman and Managing Director S K Goel said on the sidelines of Ficci Banking Conclave here. In the corresponding period last fiscal, Goel said there was...

In a chat with ET Now, Varun Goel , Head of PMS, Karvy Private Wealth, shares his outlook for the markets. Excerpts: ET Now: You have a lot of brokerages and big market voices saying that 9000 on the Nifty will materialise in the next six months or so. Should we be worried when it comes to valuations? How realistic do you think that number is? Varun Goel: We continue to be extremely positive on the markets. In June this...

SINGAPORE: A Singapore-based NRI businessman has claimed that his company is developing a set of wearable devices that would use artificial intelligence in chip-embedded clothes to reduce the usage of hand-held tools. Niraj Goel's group of companies under Clone Algo has been prepared for a mega launch of the devices across the world, said officials who are monitoring recent breakthrough in technologies. Though Goel is keeping his plans confidential for the second...